Whos your favorite scientist? : Othor Games

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:33 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing was a hero, and the way he was treated by the country he served was absolutely abominable.

Tesla is, in my mind, disqualified from this competition. A scientist is a human who furthers humanity's knowledge of the natural world. Telsa was clearly beyond the mortal ken, and thus, not a scientist.

Well said, my friend, well said.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:44 am

I think Norman Davosky, the unknown genius behind the law of gravity, of which was stolen by some punk kid...

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:46 am

I'm pretty fond of Richard Feynman and his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZNsIFID28. He was a brilliant man who knew how to explain what was so exciting about what he was doing.

I also agree with the previous posters who mentioned Turing. I don't know very much about him but the more I learn the more I'm impressed.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 am

No other Pauling fans? He made HUGE contributions to the field of chemistry, and a LOT of what we know was thanks to him. Plus, he's still mostly recent-ish, but a decade and a half.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:37 am

Do the guys from The Big Bang Theroy count ? If so then it's Dr. Sheldon

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:10 am

No, no they do not.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:44 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:18 am

No, no they do not.

My comment still stands

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» Sun May 13, 2012 9:14 am

Fictionally, Walter White.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:51 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NESNvofsfFM

2012 is gonna be her year, I know it.

I stoped watching that video after 1 minute it was just about politics.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:12 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Farnsworth

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:34 am

All my hate. I hate Edison such an unbelievable [censored].

I love me some Tesla or Hubble.

Just reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Yb64ieGvQ

I'd have to go for Feinman or Tesla.

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:02 am

Dr. Karl.

Entertaining fellow, that one.

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:26 pm

Charles Darwin, he made it so that people see the world for what it is not what some organisations would have you believe

There are countless others that have done this in other fields, but Darwin is my favourite

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:18 am

Carl Sagan, obviously.

I like Dawkins and Neille deGrasse Tyson too.

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:32 am

People like Darwin and Newton are granted, so I go with the greatest hero of our time:

Professor Richard Dawkins.

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:48 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie - first person to get two Nobel prizes.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:02 am

Edison.

He gave us LIGHT! :twirl:

I thought that was Swann. Edison was more the Bill Gates of his day rather than an actual inventor.

Edit: to actually answer the question, I'll lazily steal some other people's ideas (hmm, the mention of Edison is infectious!) and will also say Turing.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:27 am

I'd like to add http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Curie and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Curie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes for your consideration.

You can't pick just one! Many have contributed so fundamentally to modern society. Some of my other picks have already been mentioned: Tesla, Darwin, Dawkins.

Okay, okay, if I had to pick one (joint) first place, it would be Watson and Crick for their model of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dna#History_of_DNA_research strand. They accomplished this on the back of a lot of other people's work, but still.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:13 am

Nikola Tesla.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:13 am

Richard Dawkins.

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:23 pm

Nikola Tesla.

This. I don't know much about his work apart from tesla coils and he's the creator of AC, not to mention he tried to make a tesla firing weapony thing :biggrin:

EDIT: I meant AC not DC

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:08 am

This. I don't know much about his work apart from tesla coils and he's the creator of DC, not to mention he tried to make a tesla firing weapony thing

No he created AC which is much more efficient than DC. He also made an earthquake machine thing. If you want go onto a site called badassoftheweek and look him up. Your respect will rise for him.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:08 am

Does Gordon Freeman count?

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:32 am

No he created AC which is much more efficient than DC. He also made an earthquake machine thing. If you want go onto a site called badassoftheweek and look him up. Your respect will rise for him.

DC, thats the one! I shall give that place a peep soon enough.

EDIT 1:

Spoiler

For instance, in 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/tesla-proven-right-as-technology-is-transmitted-wirelessly/ through the air. Nikola Tesla once lit 200 lightbulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the god-forsaken desert. To this day, nobody can really figure out how the hell he pulled that [censored] off, because two-thirds of the schematics only existed in the darkest recesses of Tesla's all-powerful brain

That is freaking epic *Respect bar raising, raising....RAISING*. Dude.....

EDIT 2: Damn he was off his rocker so much he was great, imagine someone followed through and dared him on his boast of the Earthquake Machine...